Rubber Hand Illusion Brain Games

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Rubber hand illusion brain games. The effect was even more pronounced among people especially prone to the illusion. And hopefully this will convince you that the rubber hand is your own that your brain will actually adopt this hand. Researchers in italy performed the trick on a group of. This video is unavailable.

The brain and its integration of sensory stimuli is an enormous topic and i tried to limit this article s scope to the specifics of the rubber hand illusion in the hopes of making it manageable for readers of all backgrounds and avoid producing a tome. Experiments with a fake body part have revealed how the brain becomes confused during a party trick known as the rubber hand illusion. In the illusion simply watching the rubber hand being stroked at the same time as the real hand is enough to trick the brain into adopting it as its own. They re the hosts of one of ellen s favorite new shows brain games where they explore incredible tricks of the brain.